Sounds like a good use for an old 8 inch OSI C8P-DF if one still exists!
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George L. Rachor Jr.            george(a)racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon               
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
United States of America        Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, John Foust wrote:
 He also mentioned he has source code on 8 inch disks from an
 Ohio Scientific, Inc. machine.  He thought hed have more trouble
 finding a way to read those because of its scheme of using an
 6820 parallel port controller and a 6850 serial port controller
 to access floppies.  Is that true?  Should the normal scheme for
 connecting a Shugart-y drive to an old AT-era WD controller
 work to read these old disks?
 - John